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BUSINESS RECOVERY & CONTINUITY TOOLKIT
COVID-19 has certainly shown us how quickly things can change for businesses. Some experienced dramatic downturns, while some businesses felt a huge jump in demands for their products and services. It’s important to have a solid plan for what to do in any challenging situation—one that can help you get back on track quickly. This toolkit is designed to help small and medium sized businesses like yours prepare for unexpected disruptions while navigating through the ever-changing business landscape.
A business continuity plan helps you:
- Understand your business processes, which could include supply chains, and human resources requirements
- Examine how each area of business activity is affected by a major disruption
- Prioritize the options for assessing risks and recovering from disruptions
- Communicate challenges and train your employees
- Develop a step-by-step response and recovery plan
- Develop resilience and continuity plans that continue to be updated to reflect the current business landscape
This session walks you through exactly how to use the Business Recovery and Continuity Toolkit. It’s a helpful resource for small to medium sized businesses like yours, and will enable you to create a resiliency plan and strategy so your business can bounce back from any unexpected disruptions.
You will find additional videos on this page below the toolkit.
Toolkit
This step-by-step guide will help you put together a solid plan for your business, and what to do in the case of any unexpected disruptions. It’s always said to hope for the best and prepare for the worst, and with this plan, your business will be better ready for it all. Feel confident in tackling whatever comes your way and leading your employees through any challenges.
Context & Process Understanding
Use this guide to identify and understand your business’ key processes and resources. Mapping out each area such as personnel, supply chains, facilities, IT, and others will allow you to think ahead and analyze the potential impact of any disruption on each area.
Impact Analysis & Resource Requirements
Once you have the full picture of your business as it is now, determine how a disruption would affect each part of your business. You will also identify the minimum resources necessary to keep your business going.
Step 2 Resources:
- Use Step 1 resources
Continuity Risk Assessment
Use the templates to help identify any disruption risks to your business. For example, if you have a kayak rental company, a disruption risk would be the weather. Explore a variety of risk areas such as deliberate attacks, accidents, and natural disasters. Once this list is complete, think of ways you could safeguard against each risk. Get creative with your solutions and plans.
Resilience & Continuity Strategy
Identify gaps in critical resources along with possible options to resolve the gaps and reduce the risks your business is exposed to. Create a strategy for selecting the best solutions based on reasonable costs and timelines.
Plan Development
Use our templates to customize your continuity plan so you can respond to disruption, recovering faster and getting employees back to work as soon as possible.
Plan Training & Exercising
Practice example scenarios, and conduct exercises and discussion-based simulations to test your business’ continuity plans with employees.
Step 6 Resources:
Business Resilience Basics
In our first webinar we cover the foundational principles of business continuity and resilience. Hear share stories of how businesses have effectively used their business continuity plans to respond to disruptions, both locally and across Canada.
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Business Resilience Basics
In our first webinar we cover the foundational principles of business continuity and resilience. Hear share stories of how businesses have effectively used their business continuity plans to respond to disruptions, both locally and across Canada.
Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
In the second webinar, we present the key resilience learnings from the COVID-19 crisis and how to use this knowledge to prepare for future disruptions. Hear directly from the Halifax business community and partner organizations as they will discuss some of their successes in dealing with the pandemic.
Toolkit Walkthrough
A detailed showcase of the business recovery and continuity toolkit and how to leverage it to increase your resilience. The toolkit is designed for small and medium business to use and this session walks you through step-by-step.
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Business Resilience Basics
In our first webinar we cover the foundational principles of business continuity and resilience. Hear share stories of how businesses have effectively used their business continuity plans to respond to disruptions, both locally and across Canada.
Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
In the second webinar, we present the key resilience learnings from the COVID-19 crisis and how to use this knowledge to prepare for future disruptions. Hear directly from the Halifax business community and partner organizations as they will discuss some of their successes in dealing with the pandemic.
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Toolkit Walkthrough
A detailed showcase of the business recovery and continuity toolkit and how to leverage it to increase your resilience. The toolkit is designed for small and medium business to use and this session walks you through step-by-step.
Testimonials
“I really enjoyed the Business Continuity Toolkit. It was very insightful and really gets you thinking about prevention planning - something that a lot of companies don't think about regularly. The toolkit provides a great and user-friendly guide to help come up with a unique prevention plan tailored to the company.”
- Employer Advisor Nova Scotia Society
Business Continuity Toolkit One-Page Guide
Check out our Business Continuity Toolkit one-page guide to learn how resiliency planning will help you plan for the future.